[Am-info] Roll-your-own categories.

[Geoffrey]

Sujal Shah wrote:

> FWIW, I would put Geoffrey in my category 2. 

I'm not sure I want to be in the category 2. :)  Actually, I build my 
own systems for a couple of reasons.

1. To get specific hardware I want. (Added a 64mb Radeon dual head video 
card a while back.  Before that I had a Matrox Millenium with an add-on 
3d card.)

2. Can't usually find what I want in a prebuilt.

My current box has: firewire card, previously mentioned vid card, cdrw 
and a cdrom, 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drive, tv/capture card, external modem, 
dual nics, usb ports with an external 4 port usb minihub, a 40 gig and a 
10 gig ide drive.  There's bound to be something I've forgotten, but you 
get the point.  Then again, I didn't build this machine with all that in 
there to start with.  I do on occasion play games, but not that often. 
(I've got quake (i,ii,ii), unreal tourny, heretic ii, descent iii, all 
Linux versions of course).

3. Most of the shops around here are still Windows focused.  Those that 
aren't, aren't that close to me.


-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?